mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Exciting update! Users can now search for content as far back as 2008 in our database. Explore news coverage from across the globe at mediacloud.org 💻mediacloud.orgMedia CloudMedia Cloud is an open source platform for media analysis. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 24/11/2025We're excited to welcome our web developer Evan Leon back from paternity leave! Congratulations once again on the new addition to your family. We’re glad to have you back and look forward to continuing our work together! 000
Reposted by @mediacloud.bsky.socialRyan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Nice piece from @columjournreview.bsky.social / Tow Center on the broad importance of news data access via the recent @mediacloud.bsky.social conference (still bummed I couldn't make it) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...cjr.orgWhy economists and doctors are monitoring local news.A reflection on the New(s) Knowledge Symposium. 012
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Three weeks ago, MEAG had the privilege of bringing together researchers, journalists, and technologists from around the world for the New(s) Knowledge Symposium: from research to intelligence. A big thank-you to all of our speakers and participant for contributing ideas, data, and dialogue! 001
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Research from Our World in Data using Media Cloud reveals a striking gap between headlines and reality. In their article it's revealed that the diseases that kill the most Americans get only a fraction of the attention given to violence. Read the full piece here: lnkd.in/dciRjPSlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Excited to share our new research, “The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival: Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat,” will be presented at AoIR2025 this week! 🎉 Click here to learn more: lnkd.in/e5vJrtaa 001
Reposted by @mediacloud.bsky.socialRahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Another insightful news analysis from FAIR using @mediacloud.bsky.social. This time digging into types of coverage on the genocide in Gaza: "Substandard coverage distorts and conceals the gravity of the crisis" fair.org/home/more-co...fair.orgMore Coverage of Gaza Starvation Did Not Necessarily Mean Deeper CoverageEven when outlets addressed the consequences of food deprivation, reporting still fell short of holding Israel responsible for deliberately inducing starvation. 021
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Media Cloud offers an array of collections that capture a wide range of voices from all across the globe. Our collections give researchers, journalists, and the general public access to powerful tools to understand the modern media landscape. Here are a few highlights from our database: 110
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Exciting update! Users can now search for content as far back as 2014 in our database. Explore news coverage from across the globe at mediacloud.org 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 10/01/2025We're pleased to share our latest scholarly publication, coauthored with @Code4Africa -- a journal article exploring news as signal on innovations in healthcare R&D in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Check it out in the African Journal of Information and Communication:buff.lyHealthcare research and development (R&D) as reflected in digital news: Analysis from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa | The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC)This academic peer-reviewed journal is an open access, peer reviewed, journal which explores electronic and digital ecosystems that facilitate information, communication, innovation and… 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 20/12/2024In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism reported on a network of 450 sites posing as local or business news publications. They promote partisan talking points and collect user data. Media Cloud turned this into a collection of sources that you can search: buff.ly/41G3I8r. 020
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 19/12/2024CGIAR used Media Cloud to create dashboards that provide snapshots of global conversations of food insecurity and climate security, based on social media and news coverage. Read about these projects here: buff.ly/4iFkGtJ #climate #foodsecuritybuff.lyResearch | CGIAR's dashboards provide a snapshot of global food and climate securityGCIAR used Media Cloud to create tools to aid in understanding food and climate security patterns. 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 17/12/2024At the start of December, Emily Boardman Ndulue, MEAG Senior Researcher at Media Cloud, and Amanda Strydom, Senior Program Manager at Code for Africa’s CivicSignal, co-led a workshop for journalists, researchers and activists about how to use CivicSignal for media analysis:buff.lyCivicSignal 020
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 16/12/2024A 2024 study used Media Cloud to explore the digital news landscape of prescription drugs in Latin America. It found that over 62% of posts lacked neutrality: promotional content overshadowed transparent, balanced information about drugs' risks and benefits. Read the study:buff.lyLatin America’s Digital Media Ecosystem: An Analysis of Prescription Drug Coverage and DiffusionMany countries ban direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs due to potential health and financial risks. However, the internet and social media now offer new ways for… 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Compare coverage on a topic across partisanship or across the world by clicking the three dots at the top of your query. 020
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Troubleshooting unexpected results: if unrelated terms result from your search, you can add these to your query. Related articles will appear in “Sample Articles,” allowing you to pinpoint why these terms appear. You can negate them from your query using the AND NOT syntax. 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Conducting proximity searches: Using Advanced Mode, the query “weather hot”~15 will find articles where “weather” and “hot” are within 15 words of each other. You can include as many words as desired in the quotation marks of this search. 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Sample stories from a query search of "COP29" showed that far-left coverage on the event largely focused on economics. Based on this sample, far-right coverage framed the event as a political scheme or as ineffective. Both partisan groups mention Trump in their coverage. #news 020
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 26/11/2024A COP29 query search of six English-speaking countries reveals that Kenya focused the greatest percentage of its news media on the event, followed by South Africa and the Philippines. The U.S. published the most stories on COP29, but the event made up a small portion of its news stories. 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Rahul Bhargava, Media Cloud Technical Lead and Principal Investigator, provides an overview of his new research, "Pre-print: Comparing Author Extraction Libraries," about analyzing and evaluating multilingual media. Read about it on our blog: buff.ly/4fQw2ZI #researchbuff.lyResearch | Pre-print: Comparing Author Extraction LibrariesRahul Bhargava reveals new research relating to multilingual media analysis. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Coverage of projections for the presidential election was examined using the Media Cloud search tool. The day before election night, the far right peaked in its attention to election projections, while coverage of this topic by other partisan groups dipped. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Our Story Guide is active! Learn about how we keep stories in our news archive by navigating to the Documentation page on our website, through the Tools tab, or visit the page here: buff.ly/4hTzNzp 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 18/11/2024“Top Language” and “Top Sources” query results are no longer experimental. This means we are confident that your query results are representative of our data. 011
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 18/11/2024We’ve temporarily reduced the weekly number of queries that a user can run to help our servers, which are bending under straining. This shouldn’t impact the majority of users. Email us if you need to increase your quota. 010
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 15/11/2024“Managed collections” are ready—these are unchanging collections managed by Media Cloud, composed of sources that we have extensively reviewed and, in some cases, worked with experts to update. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Users can now search as far back as June 2020 to gain insight into past news media coverage patterns and framing. Try entering a query using our search tool: buff.ly/4fNECZk 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 11/11/2024More information about your sources is available! Now, metadata is displayed on a source’s page. You can navigate here by starting at the Directory page, picking a collection and then clicking on a source. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Now, after entering a query, you can use the Attention Over Time feature to view your results by day, week or month. This allows you to see how much your media collection published about your topic of interest. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 07/11/2024See a missing source in our coverage of your region? We just added a new “Contributor” user type to allow trusted partners to help maintain and manage our collections of sources. 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 04/11/2024A Media Cloud exploration from this week found that nearly one in three stories from left-leaning sources that discussed Harris also mentioned “Black.” Right-leaning coverage was the next most focused on this. Read the full breakdown on our blog: buff.ly/3YOn0Xm 000
mediacloud.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social · 01/11/2024This week, an exploration into coverage of Kamala Harris highlighted unique key words that often appear in the headlines of partisan media: on the left, “Project 2025” and “weird" were common, and on the right, “illegal” and “radical." Read our full findings on our blog: buff.ly/3YOn0Xm 020
